Resource Type

Courtship

Pair of framed pictures, hand-colored over print of man and woman; clothing parts of skirt and trousers are cut out and there are pin-head like studs on clothing; back of frame is marked, "Courtship" & "Matrimony"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Engraving of San Antonio, Texas]

Steel engraving print of the town of San Antonio from Meyer's Universum.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Galveston in Texas

Steel engraving print of Galveston, Texas showing a group of men sitting, or working on a wooden dock. A sunken ship is visible in the water on the right side of the image, and on the left, the dock curves and leads toward the town. A number of buildings are pictured along the dock.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Neu Braunfels in Texas

Steel engraving print of New Braunfels, Texas, from Meyer's Universum
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Child's Book of Birds

This document includes the front and back covers of "The Child's Book of Birds"; the back cover is a listing of "Popular Games, Toy Books, &c. For Young Children" which were published by the same company.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Peter Parley's Geography for Children: with nine maps and seventy-five engravings.

Front cover of a children's geography book.
Date: 1830~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Dawn of the Signing"

Modern painting (a) of Independence Hall at Washington-on-the-Brazos where the Texas Declaration of Independence was signed in 1836; (b) frame
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Major General Winfield Scott, at Vera Cruz March 25, 1847

(a) lithograph of Major General Winfield Scott standing at the port of Vera Cruz; (b) dark brown wood frame with decorative square corner pieces.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"General Taylor and Staff: The Heroes of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and Buena Vista"

(a) Lithograph of General Taylor and staff on horseback, soldiers standing at attention with U.S. flag; (b) frame, dark brown, wooden, cut nails with filler.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Collared Peccary"

Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; plate XXXI from “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”
Date: unknown
Creator: Audubon, John James
System: The Portal to Texas History

Prairie Wolf

Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; No. 15, Plate LXXI from Audubon’s “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America”.
Date: unknown
Creator: Audubon, John James
System: The Portal to Texas History

“Semipalmated Sandpiper”

Colored lithograph by John James Audubon; No. 81, Plate CCCCV of Audubon'’s “Birds of America”
Date: unknown
Creator: Audubon, John James
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Martha Ann Woolfolk Turnham

A portrait of Martha Ann Woolfolk Turnham, she is wearing a lace bonnet and collar with a dark gown.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Josiah Turnham

Portrait of Josiah Joplin Turnham.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wallace Family home in Gay Hill

Ink drawing of Wallace Family home in Gay Hill, TX. Lois Jean Cooper Mayer Collection, Supplement 2
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Story book

This item includes the front cover and the title page of a book entitled "The Christmas-Tree."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Print of Texas missions

Two pages from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing: Room Companion. This page (104) includes two illustrations entitled, "Mission of Concepcion, Valley of the Bexar" and "Ruins of the Church of El Alamo."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Print of Texas missions

Two pages from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing: Room Companion. This page (105) includes two illustrations entitled, "Mission of San Juan, Near San Antonio de Bexar" and Mission of San Jose, Near San Antonio de Bexar."
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portrait of Asa Hoxey

Oil on canvas painting of Asa Hoxey, Washington, Texas; laid on board and framed (not from period).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"A Drove of Texas Cattle Crossing a Stream"

Engraved woodcut of cattle crossing a stream printed in Harper's Weekly, October 19, 1867, page 665.
Date: October 19, 1867
Creator: Waud, A. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Matrimony

Pair of framed pictures, hand-colored over print of man and woman; clothing parts of skirt and trousers are cut out and there are pin-head like studs on clothing; back of frame is marked, "Courtship" & "Matrimony"
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

View in the Ruins of the Alamo.

Hand-colored engraved print of the Alamo cut from an unknown bound volume. The text under the picture reads: "Never, in the world's history, had defense been more heroic; it has scarcely been equaled, save at the Pass of Thermopylae." -- Page 341.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Market House, Caroline County, Virginia]

Illustration of house; on front "Market House, Caroline County, Va. (John Baylor, 1758); on back "'New Market' Manor House, Caroline Co. Virginia. Home of the Baylors, who came from Tiverton, Devonshire, England, in 1676"
Date: 1758
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Dame Trot and her Comical Cat

Front and back covers of a book titled "Dame Trot and her Comical Cat." from the "Pleasewell Series."
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History